DOMINIC SERRES | Figures on a mediterranean quayside with shipping beyond
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April 8, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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DOMINIC SERRES
Auch 1722 - 1793 London
FIGURES ON A MEDITERRANEAN QUAYSIDE WITH SHIPPING BEYOND
signed with initials and dated lower centre: D.S. 1776.
oil on canvas
unframed: 64 x 102.2 cm.; 25¼ x 40¼ in.
framed: 80.5 x 118 cm.; 31¾ x 46⅛ in.
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Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams, 9 July 2008, lot 61.
Dominic Serres was born in Auch, Gascony, and only came to England as a Prisoner of War in 1752, having been captured at sea. He soon made an important acquaintance in Charles Brooking, the leading shipping painter of the time, who gave him some instruction in marine painting. Serres was to specialise in this particular genre for the rest of his life: he was retained by George II as official naval artist to the Crown from 1780.
The present, rather unusual exercise in the style of Claude Vernet may be compared to an earlier work depicting a Shore scene with shipping and bathers, signed and dated 1765, which was sold at Christie's, London, 20 December 1942, lot 148.